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# RE: Production release 1.8.0 of the LambdaMOO server

- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 05:20:34 PST
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    >
    >It's true that @forked would now need to have `queued_tasks(player)' in
    >place of `queued_tasks()'.  Is it a pain to have to take an extra 2
    >seconds to type p-l-a-y-e-r?  Perhaps, but you only have to write that
    >verb once; other programmers will be needing to read it and understand
    >it potentially many times.  2 seconds of "flexibility" for the person
    >writing the verb translates to inconvenience for those who have to use
    >and maintain the verb. =20
    >
    >Not an amazingly serious problem for queued_tasks(), but it gets bad
    >quickly for verbs that have more complicated dependences on
    >caller_perms().
    >

    Well, queued_tasks() (NO args) could behave normally... so for wizzen, it
    would be all tasks, for non-wizzen, owned tasks... but I think the
    optional arg is a good idea.

    --
    - Wisquatuk - AnonyMOO/MOOnShine wizard, and archwiz of TimeWarp MOO
    (aix1.uottawa.ca 7777).

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